:: New partnership to monitor UK mammals ::
A new collaborative project called the
Tracking Mammals Partnership, which brings together
23 organisations, has been set up in order to
assess + monitor UK mammal populations in a
systematic + co-ordinated fashion.
The emphasis will be on
sharing information + expertise, organising
volunteers,
involving + informing the public and providing
information about mammals equivalent to the
BTO's
bird surveys.
This information will be invaluable when making land management + conservation decisions which might impact on mammal populations and will enable the UK to fulfill the requirements of the
Habitats + Species Directive and the
UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
Earth-Info.Net is a little disappointed that the
press release for this extremely welcome initiative places so much
emphasis on the use of volunteers rather than funding the
skilled personnel needed to conduct mammal surveys rigorously, efficiently + continuously over many years, and hopes that this will follow in due course once this partnership has become more established.
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